Loftfile
● Files never leave your device

Private · Instant · Batch

Make scanned PDFs
searchable.

Make scanned PDFs searchable and copyable with built-in text recognition. Files never leave your device.

Drop a scanned PDF
or choose a file

Recognized on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Output: searchable PDF

First use downloads about 3.5 MB for the text engine; after that it’s kept on this device.

Text recognition isn’t perfect, so check important documents.

About OCR PDF

Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages, so Ctrl+F finds nothing. Loftfile recognizes the text on your device and adds an invisible text layer under each page.

The page images aren’t changed. Text recognition isn’t perfect, so check important documents.